Augustus Edwin John was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a short time around 1910, he was an important exponent of Post-Impressionism in the United Kingdom.
He developed a style of portraiture that was imaginative and often extravagant, catching an instantaneous attitude in his subjects.
Although well-known early in the century for his drawings and etchings, the bulk of John's later work consisted of portraits, some of the best of which were of his two wives and his children. He was known for the psychological insight of his portraits, many of which were considered "cruel" for the truth of the depiction.
Colonel T. E. Lawrence
Early in 1900, he married his first wife, Ida Nettleship (1877–1907); the couple had five children.
The Two Jamaican Girls
In later life, John wrote two volumes of autobiography, Chiaroscuro (1952) and Finishing Touches (1964).
In old age, although John had ceased to be a moving force in British art, he was still greatly revered, as was demonstrated by the huge show of his work mounted by the Royal Academy in 1954.
Augustus John poses for the American press on board a ship.
Some of his interesting and popular paintings
Welsh Mountains
Portrait of Frau Lally Horstmann
Ida with baby
Peasants in the Pyrenees
Mulready Wandering minstrels
English Gypsy women
By the 1920s John was Britain's leading portrait painter. Those who sat for him included Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw and T.E. Lawrence. However, one critic has claimed that "the painterly brilliance of his early work degenerated into flashiness and bombast, and the second half of his long career added little to his achievement." In later life, John wrote two volumes of autobiography, Chiaroscuro (1952) and Finishing Touches (1964). Augustus John died in 1961.
Augustus John, Fraternity (1918)
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